Sunday, September 18, 2011
DON’T!, Puzzle by Josh Knapp / Edited by Will Shortz
Doing this commanding Sunday crossword definitely requires knowing one’s “Don’t”s!, e.g.:
Don’t … PLAY WITH MATCHES (23-Across)
Don’t … MESS WITH TEXAS (38-A)
Don’t … BELIEVE THE HYPE (52-A)
Don’t … QUIT YOUR DAY JOB (73-A)
Don’t … QUOTE ME ON THIS (88-A)
Don’t … TALK TO STRANGERS (103-A)
Don’t … MOVE A MUSCLE (16-Down)
Don’t … HAVE A COW, MAN (62-D)
Other — ABHORS, ADVERB (99A. Now or never), AMATEUR, BEACH BALL and SEAL (3D. One may be seen on a 28-Across‘s nose), BON MOTS, CASSIO, CEDARS, CLASSIC, CLAW AT, DA GAMA, DOORSTEP, DYSLEXIA, ESAU and JACOB (31- and 109-Across, Biblical Twin), FIRE-LIT, GET REAL, GHETTO, GIVENS, HADRON, HOTWIRE (93A. Start without permission?), IN CASH, JELLY BEAN (75D. Element in a guessing contest), LACTAID, LORISES (33A. Bug-eyed primates), MADE A DENT (38D. Got started), OMIGOSH, OWN GOAL, PORTRAITS (51D. Gilbert Stuart works).
Five-letter — AGENT, ALERO, APART, ARGUE, ARYAN, BENDS, CABAL, CESAR, COMET, DIVAN (26A. Ottoman relative), DUANE, ELOPE, EL PAIS, FAVRE, GEODE, GINNY, HOIST, HUMOR, IRENE (81A. Hurricane of 2011), ISLET, I WISH, LEAVE, MOCK UP, NEW AT, OILED, OLLIE and OLIVE, ON ICE, ORANG, OVERT, PASTE, PATIOS, QUITE, QWERTY, RAISE, RUBLE, SENAT, SILVA, STALIN (86A. Famous Georgian born in 1879), TEETH, THORN, TIRED, TOMCAT (56A. Skirt chaser), TROPE, VIRUS, WHETS.
Short stuff — ABEL, ALB and ALL, ASC and ASI, AYES, CAP, CIS, DAHL, DOH, DRAM, DUBS, EDO, ENDS, EPA, ETAL, HAG, ICH, “Look what I DID!”, ITEM, “I’VE had it!”, JOHN, LCD, LORE, LOWS, MAG, MOAT, NAVY, NBA, PARC, PIMP, PIU (64A. More, in scores), POUT, RASP, REM, RNA, ROIL, RTE, SAME, SCAM, SEEN, SET, SHE, SLAM, SODA, SOIL, “SUCH is life ..”, SUIT, TEN and TENT, THEO, TYRA, UPI, WEIR.
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Remaining clues — ACROSS: 1. Group working on a plot; 6. Seurat painted in one; 14. One of Santa’s team; 19. Old olds; 21. Alma mater of football great Roger Staubach; 22. Opt for the window instead of the aisle?; 27. Lover of Bianca in “Othello”; 29. Please to the unwelcome; 31. Loo; 35. “Dream on”; 37. Priestly robe; 40. Us, e.g.; 42. Attack like a bear; 44. First person in Germany?; 45. Stir up; 47. Like some wrestlers’ bodies; 48. “___ for Cookie” (“Sesame Street” song); 50. It’s not good when it’s flat; 51. Word processing command; 57. Good news for a worker; 58. It’s passed down through the ages; 59. Like some old-fashioned studies; 60. Homeric cry?; 63. Apothecary weight; 65. Bass in a barbershop quartet, e.g.; 66. Old Tokyo; 67. Do-it-yourselfer; 69. Filing aid; 70. Open; 72. Established facts; 78. Person with a code name, maybe; 79. Puts words in the mouth of?; 80. A trucker may have one: Abbr.; 82. Advanced sandcastle feature; 83. Target of some pH tests; 84. Org. for some guards; 87. Camera operator’s org.; 92. 30, for 1/5 and 1/6, e.g.: Abbr.; 95. Possible result of a defensive error in soccer; 96. Rogers on a ship; 97. Sharpens; 98. E-mail from a Nigerian prince, usually; 101. Indulge; 108. Distanced; 110. Filmmaker van Gogh; 111. One of the Allman Brothers; 112. Harry Potter’s girlfriend; 113. Trick out, as a car; 114. In view; 115. Palais du Luxembourg body. — DOWN: 1. Trade’s partner; 2. ___-American; 4. Indo-European; 5. Stats on weather reports; 6. Sunbathing sites; 7. Can’t stand; 8. “Automatic for the People” group; 9. iPod type; 10. Liquid, say; 11. “Matilda” author; 13. Poor character analysis?; 14. Building material for Solomon’s Temple; 15. Shade of green; 17. UV index monitor, for short; 18. Total hottie; 24. Shipwreck spot, maybe; 25. Ones with crowns; 30. End of a series: Abbr.; 32. Basic skateboarding trick; 34. “If only!”; 35. It has a crystal inside; 36. Brand for people with milk sugar intolerance; 39. Figure of speech; 41. Not the ritziest area of town; 43. Small dam; 46. “Ditto”; 48. France’s equivalent to an Oscar; 49. Two who smooch, say; 50. Mawkish; 53. Hacking tool; 54. Spanish newspaper whose name means “The Country”; 55. Bring up; 56. Done in; 59. Packer of old; 60 He was named viceroy of Portuguese India in 1524; 61. “Heavens!”; 65. Look down; 68. A big flap may be made about this; 69. Possible change in Russia; 71. Banks on a runway; 73. Briton’s rejoinder; 74. Long-armed simian, for short; 76. Chilling, say; 77. Concern when coming up, with “the”; 79. Archetypal abandonment site; 83. Corporate type; 84. Inexperienced with; 85. Witticisms; 86. Anibal Cavaco ___, Portuguese president beginning in 2006; 88. Kind of keyboard; 89. Model used for study or testing; 90. Without flaw; 91. Large ___ Collider (CERN particle accelerator); 94. Bramble feature; 98. Lock horns (with); 98. Dis; 100. Some linemen; 101. Definitely not a hottie; 102. Reuters alternative; “Just ___ suspected!”; 105. “What ___ said”; 106. Uracil’s place; 107. Volleyball action.
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